Sunflower Association alerts FG on foreigners posing as tourists to exploit farmers

Middle in white without cap Md-Ceo Alhaji M. A Adeyemi Starlink Global- Ideal limited with sunflower members

·     * Kebbi Governor cautions on distortion 

Stakeholders at the meeting of Sunflower Growers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria have alerted and called on the government to curb the influx of foreigners who came in the guise of tourists but only to end up buying agricultural produce at exploitive prices from the farmers.

Editorial -Food security: Using Monitoring and Evaluation

 Using Monitoring and Evaluation

One significant gap in the Nigerian agricultural value chains is lack of effective use of monitoring and constant feedback to measure performance

Improve on finishing, partner fabricators says ICRISAT rep to NCAM

Dr. Hakeem Ayinde Ajeigbe,(ICRISAT) - Kano Station and  Country Representative - Nigeria West & Central Africa Program

The ICRISAT Nigerian representative, Dr. Hakeem Ajeigbe has advised National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM) to work harder towards achieving a good finishing machines and other equipment saying more fabricators should be engaged for commercial production of the proto type designs with royalty charges.

FECA Provost advocates training for cassava bread entrepreneurial

Dr. Samson A. Odedina

The Provost of the Federal College of Agriculture Akure Dr. Samson A. Odedina has emphasized on the need to expand the training of the youths in the value chains of cassava productivity which had already started in his college.

2018 IAR Annual Research Review/REFILs: Funding not in consonant with economic diversification

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The FMARD Minister Representative, Mr. Ime. S. Umoh, Former ED, NAERLS Prof.  Z. Abubakar, Prof Ado on day two of the Cropping Scheme.

  * Stakeholders exhort research monitoring and evaluation.

·     *  IAR recounts achievements.

The 2018 Annual Research Review and Planning Meeting / Extension Farmers Inputs Linkage System (REFILS) held for three days (April10-12) at Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Samara, Zaria were very revealing as funding was very conspicuous as one of the major factors militating against new improved technologies development cum transfer to farmers at the grassroots.

Price of cassava stems nosedives to N400 per bundle

cassava stems

·       National Agric Seed Council to set standard, certify seeds

Prices of cassava stems have nosedived to N400 per bundle after touching a high of N1200 as demand eases in Nigeria.

Shea butter: Minister raises concern on $200b for other

Hajiya. Salima Makama, Minister of state, FMITI Hajia Aisha Abubarkar & Director, Commodities and Products Inspectorate Department, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment (FMITI) Mrs. Ope Ewe

The Minister of State, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Hajia Aisha Abubakar has said that the untapped Shea butter industry was already attracting an annual income of over $200 billion into other countries where its potential is properly harnessed for employment and wealth creation. She said this at Alliance Agenda conference held at Abuja.

In Defense of Food Evolution

Are GMOs the key to global food security?

Men unload sacks of onions at a farmers market in Bamako, Mali

Food security is, and will continue to be, one of our greatest ongoing development challenges.

IITA to hold training on Novel Techniques for Weed Management in Cassava

Cassava

Farming Systems that guarantee more than 20 tons per ha.

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) plans to hold a training on innovative technologies for weed management in cassava in July.